Rose (Dillon) Ffrench (-1805) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Rose Ffrench formerly Dillon aka Baroness ffrench of Castle ffrench

Born [date unknown] [location unknown]

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Wife of Charles Ffrench — married 25 Jun 1761 [location unknown]

Descendants

Mother of Jane (Ffrench) Bromhead and Thomas Hamilton Ffrench

Died 8 Dec 1805 [location unknown]

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Her name should be ffrench but I can't get the system to understand this

Biography

Rose Dillon, eldest daughter of Patrick Dillon of Killeen, Co. Roscommon, married a man who couldn't spell French, but she did nothing to earn or expect a title.

It seems that her son Thomas, an ardent Catholic and emancipationist, was up for a title for some unclear reason, but the King took his Coronation Oath to promote the Anglican Church so seriously that he wouldn't award a title to an actual Catholic, oh no, but only to his elderly nominally-Protestant mother, whom he would succeed soon enough.

Well that's one version, though presumably the King had awarded the Baronetcy to her husband Charles ffrench in 1779 in spite of his Oath. Thomas ffrench had succeeded his father to that title in 1784.

The peerage was awarded in 1798, at which time the end of Irish peerages was presumably in prospect. The peerage and baronetcy descend together, and are extant.

Sources

Wikipedia,^[1] Leigh Rayment,^[2] Burke's (1849).^[3]

Cokayne writes:^[4]

FFRENCH(^b) OF CASTLE FFRENCH. Barony [I.] I 1798 1. DAME ROSE FFRENCH, (^b)widow, was on 14 Feb. 1798, cr. BARONESS FFRENCH OF CASTLE FFRENCH, co. Galway [I.], with rem. of that dignity to the heirs male of her body by her late husband Sir Charles FFRENCH, Bart. [I.], to whom she was m. 25 June 1761.(^c) He, who had been cr. a Bart. [I.], 17 Aug. 1779, d. 1784. The Baroness was 1st da. of Patrick DILLON, of Killeen, co. Roscommon, and d. 8 Dec. 1805. (^b) The ludicrous mode of spelling this name with a double "ff" has been stereotyped by its adoption in the patent of 1798. It probably arose from ignorance that the form of the capital "F" was that of the small "f" duplicated, so that not only every "Fool," but even every "Felon" (if spelt with a capital "F") would be equally entitled to the double "f" as these scions of the house of French. This (triple x) ffoolish ffancy has happily not been repeated by any other member of the peerage, and, considering the spread of education, is not likely now to again occur. (^c) It is not very clear on what grounds this old lady obtained a Peerage; neither her husband, son, or any of her relatives appear to have been in Parl., or to have done any political or other service to the Government.

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↑ Wikipedia:Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench
↑ Leigh Rayment: FFRENCH
↑ Burke's: Peerage and Baronetage, 1849 edn, page 394, FFRENCH. Burke shows the ffolkeses also using the ff; this doesn't contradict Cokayne's comments as the ffolkeses had only a baronetcy, not a peerage.
↑ Cokayne, G.E: Complete Peerage, 1st edn, Vol 3 (D-F, 1890) (out of copyright). PDF download (large)

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